The senator () is blamed for threats to Pix or for 8 out of every 10 opinionated messages on the subject exchanged in more than 100,000 public e Telegram groups monitored by the data analysis company.
The accountability of the PL pre-candidate for the Presidency, directly or indirectly, corresponds to 81% of the opinionated publications of these groups.
Palver removes from this analysis messages considered neutral, such as links shared without comment and automatic clipping triggers, which only replicate news on a certain subject.
The monitoring refers to the period from May 27th to June 2nd and is linked to Flávio’s trip to and from the meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on May 26th.
Since then, allies of () have started to defend the thesis in messaging groups and on social networks that this approach represented a threat to the Pix payment system, content reinforced from Monday (1st), when there was an attack against Brazilian products — the final decision depends on Trump’s approval.
Lula’s supporters used the term “Tariflavio” to associate the senator with the crisis. Politicians from the center and even Flávio’s allies believe that the imposition of the new tariffs is for the senator’s presidential campaign.
Flávio wrote a letter to the Trump administration to ask them not to impose 25% tariffs on Brazilian products, as recommended by a trade investigation into the American country.
In the letter, addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Flávio states that Brazil “is going through a period of serious fiscal and economic deterioration” and that the imposition of new tariffs “would cause serious harm to the Brazilian people.”
as to Sheetthe Brazilian government intends to maintain negotiations with the USA and sees the chance of avoiding the imposition of the fees suggested by the USTR (Office of the US Trade Representative) while trying to maximize the attrition of Flávio, Lula’s main opponent in the October elections, as much as possible.
The negative decision for Brazil comes in the wake of the US decision to designate CV and PCC as terrorists and reinforces the pressure of the republican government on the Lula government.
According to the Palver report, the predominant publications accuse the senator and the Bolsonaro family of “treason against the country” and alignment with foreign interests, in addition to describing the American offensive as an attack on an achievement of the Brazilian population. This discourse repeated in the messages is similar to what has been adopted by Lula in his public demonstrations.
Among the messages that exonerate Flávio, three lines of argument stand out: the classification of the accusations as disinformation or a political maneuver by the left; the denial of a concrete risk to Pix, with publications stating that the system will not be blocked or affected; and the defense that the senator’s actions in the USA were aimed at combating organized crime.
This last aspect also criticizes the Lula government for reacting to American measures and using the issue to wear down the PL pre-candidate.
“Bolsonarism is consolidated as the main movement of betrayal of the country in history”, says one of the messages. “Fake news”, says another entry, this time defending the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL): “Lula accuses Flávio of asking for tariffs from the USA. No proof. Reason for the lie? Fear”.
The survey section brought together publications that mention Pix combined with mentions of Bolsonaro, Flávio, Trump or the United States.
The Palver survey measures the content of messages circulating in public WhatsApp and Telegram groups, not the population’s opinion. Unlike an electoral survey, there is no representative sample of the electorate or margin of error, and the numbers do not serve as a prediction.
